The choleraic epidemic is now declining rapidly in Egypt, unless
it be at Alexandria, where it appears to have reached its worst on Monday or Tuesday. In an important letter written to Wednesday's Times, by Dr. Monet, the eminent Anglo-Indian physician, that high authority on all Asiatic diseases supports the view thrown out five weeks ago in these columns, that the epidemic in Egypt, though of a choleraic type, is not genuine Asiatic cholera, but a species of remittent choleraic fever resembling it in many of its symptoms, though it requires a somewhat different mode of treatment, and runs a distinct course. Dr. Monet believes it to be absolutely certain that it has not been imported from India, and that it is endemic in Egypt and of a malarious character, due probably to the filth and bad drainage of the Egyptian towns. He says that he never knew cholera when brought from India, of which he has watched many instances in three separate voyages of his own, fail to disappear at sea.
He has studied Asiatic cholera in Paris, in London, and in Alexandria, and wherever it breaks out it is always absolutely the same. Dr. Mount has no expectation that this epidemic will -visit Europe.
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